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lpv:speaker	lp:Nicole Sinclaire2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I should like to begin by saying President Christofias. It was a delight to meet you when I came to Nicosia in 2009. Can I pay tribute to your efforts to solve the Cyprus problem; a problem which is way overdue. The ongoing insult given to you by the Turkish Government of not recognising you as the President of Cyprus is something which should be highlighted in this Chamber. I would call on you and the EU to remove the candidate status of Turkey, because they have shown themselves not able to communicate with the European Community. You talk about this as being a bastion of democracy. However, you were educated in Russia and you would have seen how the Duma was no more a bastion of democracy than this place is in relation to the Politburo, which is probably likened to the Commission led by Mr Barroso, who uses this place as a veil of democracy for its actions. You are right to highlight that the problem of your Presidency is the plight of workers. In Athens you will find graffiti that says: let us refuse to live as slaves. Your background and your ideology as a Communist will make this very difficult for you. How are you going to protect the workers or stand up for the workers with the austerity that Angela Merkel and the rest of the European Union is pushing forward? Surely you would agree with me that EU 2020 lacks 20/20 vision? I have no doubt it will be as successful as the Lisbon Strategy, which was meant to make the EU the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010. You said in an interview on television last night not to expect a mountain from Cyprus. Well, the EU is the Everest of all …"@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The President cut off the speaker)"1 "Nicole Sinclaire (NI ). -"1 "kalimera"1
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